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per 100 pounds for class A to 16 cents for class B and class H. An 

 important group of commodities carried over this route consists of 

 fresh fruits and vegetables. Some of the freight rates applying to 

 these products are of considerable importance to the fruit and truck 

 industry of the Norfolk region. The following rates applied in 1912 

 to shipments from Norfolk to Baltimore: Berries were charged from 

 18 cents per crate of 24 quarts to 42 cents per 60-quart crate; fresh 

 fruits, 7 cents per bushel box, 1 1 cents per half-barrel box or carrier, 

 20 cents per standard vegetable barrel, and 25 cents per sugar barrel; 

 cabbage, cucumbers, and spinach, 15 cents per flour barrel and 20 

 cents per sugar barrel; lettuce and potatoes, 20 cents per flour barrel 

 and 23 cents per sugar barrel; tomatoes, 11 cents per half-barrel car- 

 rier; and watermelons, 2^ cents each. The charge on cotton in 

 square bales was 40 cents per bale if compressed, and 50 cents if not 

 compressed. Cotton in cylindrical bales was charged at the rate' of 

 10 cents per 100 pounds. 



FREIGHT TARIFF ZONES. 



An example of the application of what may be termed ''zone rates" 

 is afforded by the tariffs established by the Railroad Commission of 

 Alabama for the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers. Freight tariff 

 No. 3 of this series applies to shipments between Mobile and three 

 principal cities up the river — Demopolis, Montgomery, and Sehna. 

 This tariff is based chiefly upon the Southern Classification. Cotton 

 and cement are given special rates, but other articles are charged 

 according to their respective ''classification." The six numbered 

 classes are charged from 30 cents per 100 pounds for articles in. class 1 

 to 10 cents per 100 pounds for those in class 6, and the lettered classes 

 9 cents per 100 pounds for articles in class A to 19 cents per 100 

 pounds for those in class H. Articles coming under class F are 

 charged 20 cents per barrel. The rates just quoted apply to ship- 

 ments between Mobile and any of the three cities mentioned. Freight 

 tariff No. 2 applies to shipments between Mobile, DemopoHs, and 

 points located between those cities. This schedule of rates is chiefly 

 a "commodity" tariff, each article being given a special rate. For 

 landings in general on the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers and their 

 tributaries tariff No. 1, also a "commodity" tariff, applies. 



Another instance of a zone system of freight rates is that afforded 

 on the route between EvansviUe, Ind., and Bowling Green, Ky. 

 including parts of the Ohio, Green, and Big Barren Rivers. There is a 

 special tariff between EvansviUe and Bowhng Green. Other landings 

 are divided into four groups, according to their distance from Evans- 

 viUe, No. 1 being the nearest to that place. The freight rate from all 

 landings on the Tennessee River between Florence, Ala., and its 

 mouth, to and from St. Louis, _is the same for a given commodity. 

 It costs as much to ship from St. Louis to any one landing ia this ter- 

 ritory as to another. 



